Julia Buckwalter
Julia Buckwalter is our Frontlist Adult Books Buyer, always on the lookout for new and “we have to have it” books emerging in the world. She was bitten by the book bug very early; her mom worked in bookstores almost all of her life, so Julia would leave school for the store until her mom finished work, sneaking cookie dough in her pocket from the cafe’s freezer to munch on while reading Roald Dahl. She’s a trained oil painter who studied in colleges on both coasts after growing up in Utah, returning to Moab in 2012. She loves to read across genres, but mostly fiction and memoir, likening her favorite books to moods and memories. Some of her favorite reading memories: “Wind Sand and Stars” by St. Exupery on bike riding breaks along the Colorado river, “The Lost Daughter” by Elena Ferrante on a deck chair with a paloma one hot summer evening, a tattered Little Free Library copy of “A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway one weekend in Manhattan, a Summer in college spent reading “Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurtry on the campus lawn by day and soda jerking at Baby’s Diner by night. Julia spends her time away from the bookstore trail running, looking through the latest cookbooks for something she and her boyfriend will enjoy, painting landscapes and clouds, and watching reruns of Gilmore Girls (usually in that order).